PSY B110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Adrenal Medulla, Sympathetic Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System

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Goal of psychology, to answer questions of what stress is and what its effects can be. Goal of psychology, to answer questions of how and why people respond differently to stress. Goal of psychology, to answer questions of what can happen in the future. Goal of psychology, to answer questions of how to change outcomes and manage stress. One component of stress consisting of events in daily life. Essential part of our survival, stress keeps us alive and can even help us to thrive. Two routes in the body through which stress hormones are released pathway 1 is acute stress, pathway 2 is prolonged stress. When a vulnerability meets a chronic or particularly acute stressor, the outcome can be disease or dysfunction. Mind-body systems fail to keep us functioning at a high level. The ways we think about stress and interpret all aspects of the stress process.

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